Baitasi House of the Future is smart and old-school under one roof.
Baitasi House of the Future retains the original wood frames. A new WikiHouse system was installed for the kitchen and bathroom.
Baitasi is one of the more well-preserved historic hutong neighbourhoods in Beijing. dot Architects converted one of the houses, a 30sqm …

The Pfleiderer Group, one of the world’s largest producers of wood-based panels, announced a 3.3 per cent revenue increase in the first nine months of the year amounting to EUR750.9 Mn, compared to the same period last year.
EBITDA rose 24.6 per cent, amounting to EUR96.2 Mn while EBITDA margin increased to 12.8 per cent. The company …

Raute Dragon Peel
Raute's net sales in the third quarter amounted to EUR37.2 Mn, a record-high, compared to EUR23.4 Mn the same period in 2016 before.
Operating profit was EUR4.2 Mn and accounted for 11.2 per cent of net sales. The result was EUR3.4 Mn positive, and earnings per share (undiluted) were EUR +0.81. The quarter’s profitability …

The Taiwanese-owned company in Songkhla province is the first in Asia to order the new ContiRoll Gen 9 from Siempelkamp.
Mr Jurgen Philipps presents a model of the ContiRoll to Mr David Huang, CEO of Green River Panels
Green River Panels is set to build Southeast Asia’s biggest particleboard line, boasting a 50.4-metre continuous …

US retailer Lumber Liquidators will settle all pending litigations related to the laminate flooring products from China sold between 2009 and 2015, according to a Reuters report. The settlement is worth US$36 million.
The company’s shares went up nearly three per cent after the settlement announcement.
In 2015, CBS News 60 Minutes called …

Lazaridis Hall is the new home of the Lazaridis School of Business and Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University. The building is also home to Laurier’s Department of Mathematics and associated programs, including the Lazaridis Institute and the Schlegel Centre for Entrepreneurship and Social Innovation.
The design imperative was to craft a …

This year’s PEFC Week in Helsinki brought members together to work on developing a new global strategy for PEFC to promote more sustainable forestry and tree management, and on increasing the value of the wood products supply chain to society as a whole.
“We need a paradigm shift in how society perceives the whole forest/tree value …

Latest economic indicators are positive as GDP grew at an annual rate of 3.1 per cent in the second quarter of 2017, according to the third estimate by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. (In the first quarter, real GDP increased 1.2 per cent.) Unemployment declined to 4.2 per cent in September.
Consumer confidence surged in early despite inclement …

At the ground-breaking ceremony, from left: Project Lead Leopold Atschreiter, Jan Szynaka (President of the Polish furniture manufacturers), Marshal Marek Gustaw Brzezin, Michael Egger, Mayor Kamil Kozłowski und Priest Wiesław Badura.
EGGER’s new chipboard plant in Biskupiec, Poland, is set to finish by the end of 2018. The first board is …